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Ninety percent of what's wrong with you could be cured with a hot bath, says God from the bowels of the subway. but we want magic, to win the lottery we never bought a ticket for.

Mary Karr

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Mary Karr
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 16
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I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.
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I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.
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Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.
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There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.
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Love is the only passion which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
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Faith is a choice like any other. If you're picking a career or a husband - or deciding whether to have a baby - there are feelings and reasons pro and con out the wazoo. But thinking it through is - at the final hour - horse dookey. You can only try out.
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I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.
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As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.
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I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer.
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Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You’re three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.
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Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.
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Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.
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I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!
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Im always terrified when Im writing.
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I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.
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I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.
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The voice of God does not pander, offers no five-year plan, no long-term solution, nary an edict. It is small & fond & local. Don't look for your initials in the geese honking overhead or to see thru the glass even darkly. It says the most obvious crap - put down that gun, you need a sandwich.
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That’s what’s so gorgeous about humanity. It doesn’t matter how bleak our daily lives are, we still fight for the light. I think that’s our divinity. We lean into love, even in the most hideous circumstances. We manage to hope.
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Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.
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Mother’s particular devils had remained mysterious to me for decades. So had her past. Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truth’s direction, even those who believe that such a journey might axiomatically set them free.
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